The book deals with diluted magnetic semiconductors, a class of materials important to the emerging field of spintronics. In these materials semiconducting properties, both transport and optical, are influenced by the presence of magnetic ions. It concentrates on basic physical mechanisms (e.g. carrier-ion and ion-ion interactions) and resulting phenomena (e.g. magnetic polaron formation and spin relaxation). Introduction to the Physics of Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors is addressed to graduate-level and doctoral students and young researchers entering the field. The authors have been actively involved in the creation of this branch of semiconductor physics.

Basic Consequences of sp-d and d-d Interactions in DMS.- Optical Spectroscopy of Wide-Gap Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors.- Exchange Interaction Between Carriers and Magnetic Ions in Quantum Size Heterostructures.- Band-Offset Engineering in Magnetic/Non-Magnetic Semiconductor Quantum Structures.- Diluted Magnetic Quantum Dots.- Magnetic Ion-Carrier Interactions in Quantum Dots.- Magnetic Polarons.- Spin and Energy Transfer Between Carriers, Magnetic Ions, and Lattice.- Coherent Spin Dynamics of Carriers and Magnetic Ions in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors.- Spectroscopy of Spin-Polarized 2D Carrier Gas, Spin-Resolved Interactions.- Quantum Transport in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors.- Neutron Scattering Studies of Interlayer Magnetic Coupling.